{"id":59823,"date":"2017-05-12T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59823"},"modified":"2017-05-12T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T11:02:36","slug":"church-times-jesmond-robust-in-defence-of-its-new-curate-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59823","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Jesmond robust in defence of its new curate-bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesmond Parish Church is at the centre of a row over its assistant curate, the Revd Jonathan Pryke, after he was consecrated bishop by a breakaway South African Church last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The action was taken without the knowledge of the diocese of Newcastle or its Bishop. But the Vicar, the Revd David Holloway, has dismissed a firm reminder of Bishop Pryke\u2019s legal obligations, issued by a C of E spokesman, and threatened \u201creciprocal heresy trials\u201d if action is taken against his curate.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pryke, has served at Jesmond Parish Church, the Clayton Memorial Church, in Newcastle, since 1988. He was consecrated as a \u201cbishop in the Church of God\u201d by the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa (REACH-SA) at a service in Newcastle on 2 May, a statement from the church said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/12-may\/news\/uk\/jesmond-robust-in-defence-of-its-new-curate-bishop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesmond Parish Church is at the centre of a row over its assistant curate, the Revd Jonathan Pryke, after he was consecrated bishop by a breakaway South African Church last weekend. The action was taken without the knowledge of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59823\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,199,435,184,108,523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-south-africa-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59826,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823\/revisions\/59826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}